Steam Winter Sale Countdown 2 -

The Steam Winter Sale 2017 is due to go live shortly - luckily, Steam rarely sees its service go down in the wake of increased traffic.

With that in mind, however, servers can always crash, so if you're keen on grabbing yourself a bargain on PC games, just bear in mind you may not be able to access the digital storefront the second the Sale is launched.

We'll report as it launches.

Steam Winter Sale Countdown 1 -

Steam's (in)famous Winter Sale is due to go live later today, offering gamers all around the world the chance to make some incredible savings.

Typically, the Sales go live in UK time at around 6pm.

So if the shortest day of the year is getting you down, one of the best ways of making the most of the longer-than-usual dark hours might be picking up a game for over 50% off and enjoying it until the days start to get a bit longer.

We'll keep updating this piece with new information as it becomes available.

“Valve never announces Steam sale dates up front, but Steam sales return every year in a relatively stable frequency.

“Based on data from the last few years, the upcoming sale dates are predicted.

“These predictions are a combination of the following factors: dates and months in which a sales started, which day of the week a sale usually starts.

"How long a sale usually lasts, what dates/events a sale generally hits, times are based on the East Pacific time zone.

“As you can see there are multiple sources to find out when a sale will most likely start.”

We'll update this post with more information as it becomes available.

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The last Sale we saw on the Steam storefront was around Black Friday - or what Steam calls its 'Autumn Sale'.

The period saw Steam offer some amazing discounts on games over the few days it was live: Resident Evil 7, Rainbow Six Siege, Shadow of War, Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3, Elite Dangerous and Sniper Elite 4 all saw huge discounts in the sale - so maybe that game you've been waiting for this time will see a price chop, too.

Steam Sales have become the things of legend: the offers and deals in the events are often huge, and allow gamers to see up to 90% slashed from the RRP of some titles.

So make sure you check your wishlist - you may well get a good deal on quite a lot of the titles listed in there.